Undergarment and method for producing same.



C. R. WATSON.

NT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME. APPLICATION man AUG-29, I916.

UNDERGARME/ Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 29, 1916. Serial No. 117,415.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that 1, CHARLES R. WATsoN, citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Undergarments and Methods for'Producing Same, the following is a description. This invention has reference ments and particularlyto be noted the following: to provide a method from a plurality of which will be 6.

I understood, 1 have provided drawings;

- the sections 12, said to] portions being 10 o the back section for making combination garments from either a single tube of knitted fabric, or tubes of knitted fabric, or from a'blank of knitted fabric or woven fabric, and to provide a one piece garment having certain novel characteristics and functions.

With the. above objectsin view and others v tailed during'the course .of this description,my invention consists in the parts, features, elements and combinations thereof hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that my invention" may be clearly wherein: Figure 1 is a plan of a section of a single tube of knitted fabric from which my garment may be made; v Fig. 2 is aplan view, illustrat ng .the method of laying out andcutting the single tpbe of knitted fabric to make according to my invention; h

Fig. 3 1s afront elevation of the garmentform after it has been cut from the single tube of knitted fabric and the garment-form folded to produce the completed garment; Fi' 4 isa front elevation of the complete garment which may be made from a sin le tube'of knitted fabric, from two tubes of nitted fabric, or from a flat blank of knitted or woven fabric;

Fig. 5 illustrates the method of producing the garment of Fig. 4. from two tubes of knitted,fabric;* j Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 3, showin me thod of Fig. 5 and; v Fig. 7 is a view illustrating the manner in which a garment-form may be cut from a blank of either knitted or woven fabric,

, Fig. 1 illus- Referring to the drawin knitted ,fabilc,

trates a section of a tube 0 combination a:' garment tally, as at a garment-form made according to the the same being indicated by'l. The dotted lines 2 indicate the manner in which the tube will be cut to produce the unit sections 3from which a garment-form will be cut. Fig. 1, shows the tube very much smaller than natural size.

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f In Fig. 2, one of the unit sections 3 is shown as treated by cutting off a corner along the line 4; cutting off the bottom of the tube on the line 5; cutting ofi one side of the tube on the 'line 6 and the continuation line 7 cutting off a curved section on the line line 9; and cutting off the top of the, tube on the the top of the tube on the two curved lines ,11. The blank form thus made is folded out flat and the two-outer sections 12, are folded on the lines 13 with the edges 7 slightly overlapping, as along the line 1 1, said overlapping portion becoming the placket of the garment which may be open from the neck of the crotch. The fold-lines 13obecome theside's-of the garment. The

8, and another curved section on the 7 line 10. An incision is also made in,

oval incisions 11, become 'the arm-holes 15. f of the garment-and the topportions 10 become the back of the shoulders 16, the fronts of which are the top portions ofstitchd to the tops 17. An edge 6 is then stitched toan edge of the garment. Of course, sleeves may added to the arm-holes 15 if desired.

stood that the'edges ofthe placket opening, from the neck to the crotch 18, will *to the button-holes andprevent the; latter from undulyistretchingfi l he arm-holes, the

neck opening. andthe-bottoms of the legs may all 21 in order to provide theproper finish. The lineof stitching which produces the legs of the garment, is indicatedat 22.

When this garment is made of knitted fabric, one of its essential characteristics is that its elasticity is transversely-of the garment instead of longitudinahly thereof, this being accomplished by knitting the tube give stability Now viewing Fig.4, it will be underbeturned in or hemmed in any suitable man- '95 of which buttons 20 may be attached, while thetop flap of the. placket L be hemmed andstitohed ornamenice 'with the wales longitudinally thereof. This enables the legs of the garment to be.

stretched laterally extraordinarily ,for use,

- essential characteristic of the garment is that it is considerably narrower from the waist .up than from the waist down, the narrow- ,ing of the garment being rather abrupt; so

as to produce the athletic form'of upperor shirt portion, of the garment across the scribed, it is immaterial which portion is cut first, or what order ofcuttingr-may be followed; but, a single die cutter may be employed to cut out the garment-forms at a single operation and in-great numbers, or a band-cutter, orother form of cutter, may be employed to follow the pattern-lines ina manner well understood in the arts If the garment be made of two tubular lines 33, for-the purpose'of' 'seamingand sections of knitted fabric such as3, assuming them to. be substantial one-half the width of-the tube out of'which the garmentforms of Figs. 2 and 3 are out, two sections of the tubular knitted fabric, such as 3, will be superposed as shown in Fig. 5; The saidtwo tubes will then be simultaneously cut obliquelylengthwise thereof, along the line 23. The left edge of the tubes will be out "along thecurved line 24, to form the arm- The top of the tubes will be cut on- I the straight-line 25, and on the curved line holes.

26. The upper tube will have its upper layer and the bottom tube will have its lower layer cut on the line 27. The tWmgarmentforms thus produced, .are then. laid with their side out edgesedge-to-edge, as shown in Fig. 6, the fold-edges 28, becoming the '7 opposite sides of the garment, and the shorter, out, side edges becoming the placket flaps 29, while the longer, out, side edges arestitched together, to formlthe back seam of the garment. The cut edges 25, are then connected together to form the shoulders 30 of the garment, and .the openings cut'along the lines 24, become the arm-holes 31, see

. Fig.- 6. The legs of the garment are seamless, because the tube at that portion from Y the point '32, Fig. 5, to the bottom thereof,

has not been cut. The garment is then hemmed, bound, button-holed and buttoned as in Fig. 4, the only other difference between the garment made according to the garment according to the two methods, being that the ba ckbf the second method is scanned while the other is seamless.

If a garment is made from a fiat blank of either knittedpr woven fabric, it may be out from a rectangular blank of material'according to the outlinesshownin Fig. 7. Tn this figure, after 7 the blank of the form incensed showii is produced, either by a singlestroke ,of a die or in any other manner found su'itable and economical,- the blank will. befolded Jon the'lines- 33, thus bringing the opposite edges crime positiontoform the front placket opening. The edges. 35, are p then stitched to the edges 36 respectively, so a 1 to. form the legs. of .the garment, the

placket extending from the crotch 37, to the neck of the garment. The edges 38 are then stitched together to i make, the shoulder straps. The' arm-holes 322 are formed by cutting on the curved line 40. This garment .may be hemmed, ornamented, bound button holed and buttoned'in precisely the manner of the other garmentsf as shown in Fig.4. The garment-formof Fig. .7, may also be .made from a flat blank of woven orknitted material, by first folding the same on the median line 41. Then a single die may cut theedgcs 34. 1 n 39 to make I arm-holes 40, as previously described. The

outflat and folded as above describedon the garment-form thus made will then be laid form of Fig. 5, [the sections cutaway on the;

.lines 27 would...require a subsequent operation.

Having thus described my. invention, what I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patentisz The method for making arments'com prising cutting, from a sing e tubular section of knitted fabric of predetermined length, a completeone-piece garment-form of predetermined shape; juxtaposing certain of the cutedgest'o form a wholly clOSQd and seamless garment-back and a" front placket open from the necktoward' theicrotch of the garment; stitching other out edges together t6 form abnormally wider andshortleg portions, narrow shoulder pieces, neck-opening and arm-holes and finishing thegarment by hemming or binding all free edges.

- 2. The method for making garments comprising cuttin from suitable material a gar- .ment-torm'w ich is very wide at one end, and very narrow at the other end, and which has the characteristic outlines of the garment to be, produced therefrom; juxtaposing 3 cut edges of the garment-form, to provide a frontplacket open through the neck opening toward the crotch of the garment; stitching other out edges together, to form abnormall wide and short leg "portions, narrow shou 'der pieces, neck-openin and arm-holes; and finishing the garment y, heg all free edges. I. T

A. combination garment formed of a eingle' piece of material, having its lower end formed into abnormally Wide and short .leg portions and its; upper end formed into a body portion havmg arm holes and neck 5 opening; said garment also having-its entire b ck closed from the neck opening to andthrough the crotch, and a front placket ex- {tending through the neck opening and down- Wardtoward the crotch.

10 4:. A combination garment formed with a body portion having neck and arm openings,

and but one body opening providing a front placket extending through the neck opening toward the crotch sa id garment being also provided at itslowerend with abnormally 15 wide and short leg portions and at its upper end with a. comparatively narrow shoulder and chest portion.

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